Improved cheese-press



UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

VILLIAM H. GUY, OF JONESVILLE, MICHIGAN.

,IMPROVED CHEESE-PRESS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent o. 33,248, dated September 10, 1861.

To all whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. GUY, of .Ionesvil1e, in the county of HillsdaleV and State of Michigan, have invented a new and Improved Cheese-Press; and I do heleiy declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which-- Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved 1 vess. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same ayf 5v, Fig. l'. -A 4 Similar letters of reference indicate corre-- spendingl part-s in both figures.

The subject of this invention is a machine adapted to compress cheese byits own weight and that of a sliding frame in which itis held through the medium of suspending levers with any required force, as hereinafter ex-v plained.

To enableothers skilled in the art to make and use lmy invention, I will proceed to describe its construction.

Ais thebase of the frame, supported on feet B B.

C C D`D are standards secured vertically to the baseA.

E is a cross-beam connecting thestandards D Dat top.

F is a standard projecting upward from the beam' E.

Each of the standards D D is formed in two l pieces to receiveand guide levers, hereinafter described, and the standards (l and C are slotted vertically for a similar purpose.

G isa sash-frame fitted to slide vertically betweenthe standards I) D.

H is a follower having vertical'play within the frame G.

I is a stem attached to the follower H and extending upward through mortises in the upper cross-piece of the sash-frame and the beam E.

J J are levers fuicrumed in the sash-frame and connectedto the stem 1 by links j j.

i The 'outer ends of the said levers rest upon pivoted blocks c in the standards C and C.

K is a lever fulcrumed in the standard F and connected by a link k to the top of the stem I. .l

L is .the form-board supporting the cheese hoop or curb M.

N is a follow-block, of which one or more' of any required thickness may be interposed between the follower Il and the pressing-disk within the hoop. l OV is a weight, which is set in any suitable position uponthe lever K to regulate the pressure.

The operation is as follows: To insert the cheese the lever K is drawn down and secured by means of a pin P, placed above it at .either hole inthe standard'C, b vwhich means O, the said weight being moved toward theA outer end of the lver K t'o counterbalance the weight 4of the sash, &c., when it is desired to reduce the pressure..

' Having thus described my invention, whatl claim as new, and. desire to secure by Letters l. The counterbalance-lever K, operating in connection with the stem I, follower'H, and

suspend ed sash-frame G to regulate the pressure, as explained.

2. The pivoted blocks c, employed to support the suspending-levers .I .in the manner set forth. .y V

The above specitication of myV improved cheese-press signed this 25th dayof June, 1861.

Witnesses:

A. BEACH, THOMAS R. FoWLER.

w. H; GUY. 

